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"PRESIDENT^ LOUBET'S
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O Xlie Venerable Peasant Woman O
O "Whose Son Rules l''runco Sllll O
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Above is published a picture which
tells at a fflance why the monarchical
press of England and the Continent
thinks and says and shouts that the
French people aro crazy and in the
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last stages Ul puiitiuttl ouu oumui
<;haos.
It i6 the picture of the mother of
the new President of the French Republic.
What but the gloomiest view could
monarchists, and especially titlehunting
journalists, take of a nation
that yonld select as its leaders the
sons of \ich women as plain old
"Mother Loubet,"when it might be
led by the sons of noble and even
royal mothers?
But as Americans look into the face
of this woman of the people they begin
to realize, the truth about France,
the real France, the France that is
filled with just such plain people as
our own, toiling aud struggling
"that their children may inherit the
promise." We see tiiat f'rance nas
shaken off the traditions of caste and
' -and privilege, that she has become a
land of, for and by the plain people.
And we know that through such
.homely virtues as shine from Mother
.lioubet's face?the virtues of simplicity,
shrewdness, frugality and industry?France
is and will remain
jjreat.
Mmc. Loubet is living in the Southern
country district which has always
been her home?a typical peasaut
woman of the most prosperous class.
In spite of her eighty-six years, she is
robust, active and still prepossessing
in appearance. Ever since her sou
was chosen to his high office his venerable
mother has been fairly besieged
by reporters from all parts of the
country, anxious to talk with and
make known to the French people a
woman who has suddenly become a
person of great public interest.
Her maideu namo was Marie
Harguerite Nicolet. She is a typical
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WHERE FRANCE'S TR
(The old farmhouse at Marsanoe, wt
landlord-peasant of France?simple,
frugal, expert in husbaudry, hardheaded,
with a knack of driving a
bargain.
The rise in her son's fortunes has
not altered her. She has refused to
live in Paris or to change her mode
of existence.
Her portrait, which the newspapers
Lave managed to obtain in her ordin
ary workday dress, is saiu to De au
excellent likeness. The short gown,
the blue linen apron, the quaint white
cap and tho clumsy, shapeless shoes
are the characteristic garb of tho
country women of Southern France,
and Mme. Loubet seems to look over
her spectacles in mild wonder that
any one should think them worthy to
be photographed and published all
over the world.
TMm linnqn in TvliifVh Mmn T.nnhftf,
lives, and in which the President himself
was born, is near the little village
of Mars&nne, a district of the town of
Montelimar. A narrow river-path,
bordered with poplar trees, leads
from Marsanne to the Loubet farm,
r |t the end of (be valley. TUere are
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MOTHER AND WIFE.
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groups of square buildings, the
rustic arrangements of which include
stables, cattle sheds and barns on the
ground floor, while above are the
rooms of Mine. Loubet. In the yards
surrounding the house pigs, sheep
and ohickens wander about, enjoying
themselves in sociable fashion and
making the grounds of "La Terrosse,"
as the farm is called, very lively at all
times with their various cacklings,
gruntings and bleatings. The bright,
warm sunshine of the South is reflected
dazzlingly from the red-tiled
roofs ancl white plastered walls of the
buildings. The whole farm has an
air of prosperity and industry, and is
a conspicuous witness to the vigilance
and capabilities of its mistress.
Gcnla* iu Distress.
Homer was a beggar; Plautus turned
p. mill; Terence was a slave; Boetius
died in jail; Paul Borghese had fourteen
trades and yet starved with them
all; Bentivoglio was refused admittance
into a hospital he had himself erected;
Cervantes died of hunger, and Vagelas
left his body to the surgeons to pay
his debts as far as the money would
go; Bacon lived a life of meanness and
distress; Sir Walter Baleigh died od
the scaffold; Spenser, the charming,
died in want; the death of Collins was
through neglect, first causing mental
derangement; Milton sold his- copyright
of "Paradise Lost" for $75 at
three payments and finished his life
in obscurity; Otway died prematurely,
aud through hunger; Leo died in the
atreet; Steele lived a life of perfect
warfare with bailiffs; Goldsmith's
"Vicar of Wakefield" was sold for a
trifle to save him from the grip of the
law. Fielding lies in the burying
grcuud of the English factory at Lisbon,
without a stone to mark the spot;
Savage died in prison at Bristol, where
he was confined for the debt of $40;
Butler lived a life of penury and died
poor; Chatterton, the child of genius
aud misfortune, destroyed himself.?
Homiletic Review.
Kansas City's Exploitation Methods.
Kansas City, Mo., has adopted a
trademark. Hereafter it will appear
on all manufactured goods seat out
TTZSen
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ESIDENT WAS BORN.
lerc his widowed mother still lives.)
from that city. Tho design wis selected
by the directors of tho Manufacturers'
Association from seventyeight
which were submitted.. It consists
of a map of the United States,
KANSAS CITY'8 TRADEMARK.
with Kansas City represented by a star
in the exact centre. Above the star
hovers an eagle with outspread iriQff?.
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FAMOUS EDITOR-SENATOR DEAD.
Patrick Walali, a Notable Figure ii
Southern Political Life, Paaies Away.
H. Patrick Walsh, ex-United State
Senator, Mayor of Angusta, Ga., ant
editor of the Angusta Chronicle, die<
in that city a few days ago after i
prolonged attack of nervous prostra
tion.
Patrick Walsh was one of the bea
known politicians and journalists ii
the South, and attained a high posi
tion in national politics. He was ap
pointed by Governor Northern to fill
the unexpired term of Senator Alfrec
Colquitt in the United States Senate
PATRICK WALSH.
He had been sick since Decembei
1. Born in Ballingary, Ireland, ir
1840, ho came to Charleston, S. C.;
at an early ago and began newspapei
work as an apprentice boy. He rose
rapidly, and educated himself bj
working at night and going to schoo
in the day time. He moved to An
gueta in 1862, and after working ii
different places became the owner anc
editor of the Augusta Chronicle, i
leading paper of tho region. He wai
always prominent in the Stst<
Democracy, serving in the Legisla
t.ure during the seventies. He was i
delegate from his county to State
Democratic conventions for mani
years, served on many important com
, mittees, and was a delegate to the Na
tional Democratic Convention in 1880
which nominated General Hancocl
for President. He was delegate-at
large in 1884 to the Chicago Conven
tioD nominating Cleveland. For fou;
years he was a Georgia member o:
the National Executive Committee.
Mr. "Walsh was appointed in 1894 t<
fill the unexpired term of the Iati
United States Senator Colquitt. Hi
was elected Mayor of Augusta in No
vember, 1897, for three years.
Mr. "Walsh was always foremost ii
any movement for the advancement o
the South. He was a prime mover in th(
bigexposition3 given at Augusta in thi
xpast. He was prominent in the wort
of tho Catholic Church. Of his im
mediate family, only his wife, former
ly Miss McDonald, of Edgefield, S
C.j survives him.
Novel Way of Fishing:.
This picture gives a very good idei
of the ingenious fish-traps in us<
among the natives of the South Sea
Islands. These fish-traps are of varr
ous designs and sizes, but are all oi
the same principle, containing an in
closed passage for the enhance of the
fish trrnfliiallv narrowing toward the
ceutre of the trap, and terminating in
q number of loose strands of the vine
from which the apparatus is construct
A ri3II-TR.\.r IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
ed, ao that onco having entered thf
trap the fisli are unable to discover an]
means of exit. The sea frontage of a
South Sea Island village is usually apportioned
out in allotments among the
natives, each man being expected to
keep his fish-trap within the space allotted
to him. It is sometimes very
dangerous work visitiug these traps;
Buddeu squalls arise, and the hapless
Qsher, on his little catamaran, is
blown ont to sea and uever more
heard of.
Feudalism in Hungary.
Inconceivable as the anachronisn
may seem to the Western mind, thi
agrarian system of Hungary has no
yet issued from the ft dal form. Th<
Hungarian farmer of to-v. ay is virtually
a serf, bound to his master, thi
hereditary owner of tue eon wmci
the peasant tills, by the tangible tii
of personal liability. The Hungariar
feudal lord of the end-of-the-centur;
is entitled to fifty days' labor fron
each male adult who dwells on hii
land. The seignior is at liberty t<
demand this feudal 'contribution a
whatever time may seem best to him
with the frequent result that thi
tenant farmer is employed in gather
ing his master's harvests while hi
own crops are rotting after a rainfall
or are being consumed by an earl;
frost, or suffer damage from one o
more of the many possible cause
which render destructive the slightes
delay on the part of the harvester ii
gathering the fruits of a year's labor
?S. Ivan Toajbroff, in the Arena.
Where Jesso James Was ICllled.
The sensational trial and acquitta
of Jesse James, Jr., at Kansas City
/>*? +-V.O nlinr-rra nf frain rnhViorr Vin
v/u tug v<uuigv v* vvictu ?
awakened an intereot in hia farnou
HERE COB FORD SnOT THE BAXDIT.
bandit father. The house in whicl
Jesse James was killed in 1881 skil
stands on the brow of Lafayette stree
hill in St. Joseph, Mo. It is an un
failing source of interest to mauy per
' sons who visit the city,
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PEACE TEEATT SIGNED.
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* Queen Regent of Spain Affixes Her
a Signature to the Document.
t WAR IS NOW OFFICIALLY ENDED.
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The Qneen Dissolves the Covtes?The DeI
cree Will Not Be Published In the
1 Offilal liazette?An Exchange of the
Signed Docnuienti the Only Formality
Remaining?Government is Relieved.
Madeid, Spain (By Cable).?Queen Re
gent Christina, on the advice of Premier
Sllvela, signed the United States Peace
Treaty Friday evening. The Government
approved this 9fbp on account of th? manifest
peril of again submitting the document
to the Cortes, where Its rejection was
possible.
The Queen Regent has also dissolved the
Cortes and convoked a new Parliament.
Thd signing of tho treaty ends the nominal
state of war which has existed between
Spain and the United States ever since
diplomatic relations were brolien off almost
cne year ago.
The only steps now needed to establish
the two countries on the old footing of
friendliness are the formal exchange of
r ratifications, the return of a Spanish Minisi
ter to Washington and the American Minis,
ter to Madrid,
THE 3IONEV FOli SPAIN.
r The 820,000,000 Indemnity to Be Paid
[ Within Three Months.
Washisotojt, D. C. (Special).?Secretary
of State Hay says that the signing of the '
Peace Treaty by the Queen Regent of Spain
will be followed by the exchange of ratifications,
although there will be no great
baste on the part of the United States.
Within three months after the exchange of
ratifications the $20,000,000 Indemnity will
be paid.
The Effect or the Treaty.
8paln, by the provisions of this treaty,
abandons all claim to the island of Cuba
and cedes to the United States Porto Rico,
the island of Gaum in the Ladrones, and
the Philippines. For the last named group
the United States is to pay $20,000,000.
VON DIEDR1CHS IN DISCRACE;
He ii to Be Relieved |of Hli' Command
For Annoying Admiral Devrey.
Berlik, Germany (By Cable).?Prince
Henry of Prussia has started for Kiau-Chou
a Bay, China, where all the war vessels comrtAolnr*
f ha f hta ^ovman oah o /1t?Ano {n Pa?
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ADMIRAL TON DIEDBICH8.
eastern waiers win aasomuie iur tun luruiiu
transfer of tbe commandershlp from Admiral
von Diedrlchs to Prince Henry. The
former has been ordered relieved of bis
command on account of tbe manner in
which be bad boen annoying* Admiral
Dewey of the American flee':. The removal
amounts practically to disgrace.
FOUND DEAD IN ALASKA.
A Prospecting Party of Six Frozen on
> - Valdez Glacier.
j Skattlb, Wash. (Special).?The steamer
, Exaelslor, which arrived a few nlght3 ago
' from the mouth of the Copper River,
< Alaska, brlng3 news of the freezing to
death of six men on Valdez Glacier. They
wore: Alfred Aleeman, New York; Adolph
Ehrhard, New York; Rudolph Ellorkamp,
Louisville, Ky.; Dr. Edward Loflran, Denver;
Maximilian Miller, Now York, aud
August Schultz, New York.
All the bodies oxcopt tbat of Dr. Logan
\ were recovered and burled at Valdez.
I Ehrhard, Miller and Aleeman wore mem,
bers of the Scientific Prospecting Compacy
of New.York.
TALMACE'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.
1 No Regret Kxpresaed at His Withdrawal
2 From tho Washington Paatorace.
' Washington, D. C. (Special).?Tue reslgs
nation of the Rev. Dr. Do Witt Talmage as
? pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
2 was accepted a few nights ago at a church
3 meeting. The resolution accepting the
a resignation contained no expression what1
ever of regret at his withdrawal, and no
. provision was made to send him a letter of
' regret. The resignation takes effect lm1
mediately, but no successor w<;s provided
3 for. Dr. Talmnge is now traveling in tbe
2 South. He was connected with the churoh
j about four years.
FLOATING ISLAND IN ILLINOIS.
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It Sailed Down a River and Destroyed a
j Wagon Krldee.
> Havana, III. (Special).?A floating Island,
y between one aud two acres in extent, and
I | irom lour CO UVO lUOl IU1U&, UU3 OUIUO uunu
c the Illinois River. It lilt a cablnboat,
J I smashod tho keol api lan led It ashore,
j The Island also struck a pier ofthewaj
gon bridge, throwing crossing horse3 from
their feet. It is stranded between the pier
and shore.auii the city authorities will blow
it ap with dynamite.
J INDIAN KILLS A POLICEMAN.
i Sioux. Charged With Abusing Ilia While
E Wife, Ileal st?d Arrest.
3 Gordon, Neb. (Special).?At Porcupine
Sub-Agency of Pine Ridge Agency, north
of here, an attempt was made to arrest
White Thunder, a full-blooded Sioux, for
abusing his white wife. White Thunder
was armed and resisted arrest, killing one
Indian policeman and badly wounding
another. He escaped to Sand, Hills, but
six Indian trailers followed and captured
him, bringing him in Irons to the ageucy
on Friday.
Cruiser Prairie to Go In Commlaalon.
The Navy Department, Washington, has
decided to put the auxiliary cruiser Prairie
in commission for the next six mont hs, so
as to give the Naval Militia of the Coast
and Gulf States short cruises.
An Austrian Ambassador at Washington.
Emperor Franois Joseph, of Austria, has
given his consent to the elevation of the
1 Austrian Legation at Washington to an Em1
bassy in the autumn.
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Philadelphia Keacnea ;amoa.
The United States cruiser Philadelphia
has arrived st A^la. Samot.
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GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN.
PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS.
A Vision of Judgment?Worship by Service?The
Heathen Difference?A Prayer
for Divine Aid?The School of Suffering?
Souree of Lovely Character.
I slept?and started broad awake with fear !
My room was light as in the noonday clear,
And lo! an angel with a look severe!
In awful silence he did then unroll
My past before me like an open scroll?
The Day of Judgment overtook my soul!
"Have I so deeply sinned?" I faintly cried;
"Waste?waste is crime!" the accusing Voice
replied;
"Look on the record, and thyself decide!"
Then, self-convicted, weeping and abased?
"Alas! my heedless youth!' I cried in haste,
"When all life's golden moments ran to
waste!"
"Not so!"?grave voice that my rash thought
condemned?
"Youth's folly oft is wisdom in the end ?
'Twere ill to hoard what God has given to
spend!
"Look over again upon thy later days
When trials came thou shouldst have
turned to praise,
And sorrow sent to teach thee heavenly
ways!
"Those priceless pains ?those sacred,
stricken years!
How thou hast" squandered them too well
appears?
In useless protests and unworthy tears!"
The final words died on some far-off shore,
And all was dart, and I alone once more
And broad awake?had I but dreamad before?
0 warning dream! 0 timely, saving fear!
Even loss is welcome now," and hardship
dear,
Angel of Judgment! till thou dost appear.
?Elaine Goodale Eastman, in Independent.
Worship by Service.
There is a legend in the Greek church
about her two favored saints?St. Cassianus,
the type of monastic ascoticism, individual
character, and St. Nicholas, the typ?J of
genial, active, unselfish, laborious Christianity.
St. Cassianus enters heaven,- and Christ
says to him:
' What hast thou seen on earth, Cassianus?"
"I saw," ho answered, "a peasant floundering
with his wagon in a marsh."
Didst thou help him?"
"No."
Why not?
"I wa9 coming before Thee." said Cassianus,
?'aud I was afraid of soiling my white
robes."
Then St. Nicholas enters heaven, all covered
with mud and mire.
"Why so stained and soiled," St. Nicholas?"
said the Lord.
"I saw a peasant floundering in the
m/irsh." said St. Nicholas, "and I put my
shoulder to the wheel and helped him out.
"Blessed art thou," answered the Lord;
"thou didst well; thou didst better than
Cassianus.'.'
And He blessed St. Nicholas with fourfold
approval.
It is like tho legend of one who saw an
an?el writing in a brook the names of those
who loved the Lord, and ho said: "I pray
thee have my name written among tho lovers
of my fellow-men." The angel wrote, and
vanished. The next night he fame again
with a gre^t awakening light, and showed
the names of those whom God had blest;
and. lo, this man's name read above all the
rest. One thing, my friend. Is certain?the
more truly wo love the Lord the more
thoroughly shall we love and serve our fellow-men.?Canon
Farrar.
The Heathen Difference.
/%_ ? - ? *1 ~rr.*~4.~ -1
un? 01 iuu uuuicsi utiocis ui viinni.auii.jr
has been the emancipation of woman. The
other ha? been the sanctiflcatlon of childhood.
In the very empire into which that
Saviour entered, who was to be at once
its Reformer and its Destroyer, woman was
degraded withe ut pity and despised without
hope. A great woman was generally a more
cruel tyrant or a more carnal character than
a great man in the Roman world. The beautiful
Cleopatra and the lovely Messalfna
have descended in history as incarnations of
the lowest Infamy. Herodlas-was the chief
woman in Syrian society in the days of
Jesus, and Herodias was simply a tigress in
human guise. Good women there were, but
the world round them w$s an inferno for
women. And men in power, if not. Christians,
have always been either the profligate
puppets or the hard-hearted oppressors of
women. Antony would have ruled the
world had he not been ruled by the beautiful
Egyptian queen. Napoleon wanted to
reduce French women to mt're family incubating
machines. Women as a rule do not yet
know what they owe to Christ. If they
did, such teaching as Mrs. Besant's
would be impossible, for it would find no
followers; and Ingersoll's flippant bash of
Hume and Bradlaugh would never be rehearsed
in female ears when he lectures.
There is not a single counti y on earth where
woman has any rights of hf>r own excepting
where the Gospel has flung the light of hope
on her path. .Unchristianized lauds are
simply lands of women's wrongs.
A Prayer for Divine Aid!
0 God. whoso mercy makes each morn a
new beginning of opportunity and strength,
so uphold and strengthen us in thine infinite
compassion that we may serve thee this day
in childlike love and glad obedience. If
ne have sinned and wake to consciousness
with shame and oontrition of heart, bring to
our thought the sense of thy long-suffering
pity and the promise of thy aidOut
of the wreck of larger hopes and forfeited
occasions enable ua to build our lives
as a temple to thine honor. In the hour of
temptation be thou our shield. In the uplifting
of our joy be thou our deepest satisfaction.
Teach us the lesson of seIf-for.<jetfuiness
that we may lose our gloomy fears
in thoughts of thee aud in happy service to
others. So may our day bo spent in quiet
work and restful faith, to thine etc r lal glory,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amon.
The School of Suffering.
Many a word spoken out of season haa
fallen like a need on the wayside to bo devoured
by birds: whilst the 6arae word, uttered
at the right time by a voice with less
quality of tone, has been God's balm. It is
not easy to know just when to speak to the
weary. There are times when the nervous
system is so overstrained that it cannot bear
oven the softest words. It Is best then to be I
silent. A caress, a touch, or the stillness ;
that breathes an atmosphere of oalm, will j
then most quickly soothe and heal. This [
delicacy of perception can only be acquired '
in the school of suffering. Our Master
knows when to speak and when to be st II, ,
because he baa graduated there.?Kev. F. B.
Meyer. 1
Thp Source of Lovely Character.
There lived once a young girl whose perfect
grace of character was the wonder of
those who knew her. She wore on her neck
a gold locket which no one was ever allowed
to open. Ono day, in a moment of unusual .<
confidence, one of her companions was al- 1
lowed to touch its spring and learn its secret.
Bhe saw written these words: "Whom hav- <
(ng uot seen I love." That was tho socret (
nf luiuiihTnl I i htiil ho??n i?hnni?i?il
into tho siiinu image.?Prof. Henry Drum- i
mond, in "The Changed Life."
Many of our cares are but a morbid way J
of looking at our privileges.?Sir Walter
Scott. ^
A Scrum Cure For Pneumonia. I
Professor Wassermann. one of the most '
diligout and most capablo of Professor
Koch's pupils, nt Berlin, Germany, hopos 1
that ho has dlsoovorod a serum cure for 1
pneumonia. He does not commit biiraelf J
to a definite statement, being mindful of
former disappointments, but prolonged &x- 1
periments with rabbits and mice have con- <
vincoti 111m nine nn iidiuomu kt jjruuuuou
In tlio rod marrow of their bones and iu tlip
marrow of a human being who has died 1
from pneumonia. j
10,400 Dervlfllies Wore Killed. ^
According to official reports to the War '
ORlco, London, 10,000 D?rviflhes were t
killed at Omdurmanand 16,000 wounded, <
besides the 400 killed In taking thq town. '
No official retqrna exist of the nnmber of 5
wounded treated in the hosDltals.
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THE SABB1TH SCHOO:
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMEN
fOK Af'KIL V.
Lesion Text: "The Anointing: at Be
any," John *11., 1-11-OoIden Te
"She Hath Done What Site Conli
Mark xiv., 8?Commentary.
1. The rising of Lazarus from the f :
(19 described in our last lesson, produced
much excitement and awakened suoh t
ter hostility that Jesus left the region
Jerusalem and spent a few weeks in reU
ment with His disciples at Ephriam int
mountainous district north'of Jfrusale
The disciples probably needed His instri
tlons more than the people, in order tl
they mifcht be fitted to carry on His gr<
work after His death. As the Pa3soi
drew near, Jesus went across the Jord
An thii nHiar atria fhmil
Ferea to the fords opposite Jericho, he
ing and teaching by His way. Thence
went up toward jerusaiea and reach
Bethany on Fridav evening, March 81, i
days before the Passover. Here He sp<
Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, doubtl
with the family "that Jesus loved."
2. "There they made Him a supper."
the little town of Bethany Jesus bad 1
come popular, and sfncethe rising of La:
rus He was regarded with marked vene;
tlon. Hence this token of esteem a
honor. The supper was on Saturday evi
leg, after the Jewish Sabbath was ended
sunset, and at the house of Simon the lep
probably one who had been cured by Jes
According to a tradition, He waa the fatl
of Lazarus; according to others, He wai
husband of Martha, or Martha was 1
widow. "Lazarus was one of them tl
sat at the table." What bad been done
him by Jesus made him an honored guc
His very presence was an expression of
gardtohlmwho bad restored him. ft
the characteristic part each of this fam
took at this feast.
3. "Then took Mary a pound of ointm<
of spikenard." A Roman pound of twe
ounces. By the ointment we Are to und
stand rather a liquid perfume than wl
we commonly know as ointment. T
ointment was in an alabaster flask (Matl
usually made of Oriental or onyx alabas
with long, narrow necks. Ointment
spikenard is literally "ointment of pis
nard," "pislic" meaning either "genuin
or "liquid." It was puro nard. like atl
of roses, unadulterated, la full strong
Its costliness made it peculiarly liable
adulteration. Spikenard (spike-nard) v
a plant closely allied to valerian, and n
found in the Himalayan region. The or
is described as resembling that of a m
ture of valerian and patchouli. It is woi
300 Roman pence, denarii, silver co
worth fifteen to seventeen cents. Hei
the whole was worth about $50, or $300
$400 in our time, a penny or denarius I
ing then equal to a clay's wages (Matt.
2). "Anointed the feet of Jusus." S
first "poured it over His head" (Mark),?
John notices only her pouring it upon I
feet, for it was common to pour it up
the head, and expressed the usual sec
ments of honor to n guest; but anointl
the feet was unusual, and expressed 1
tenderest, most humble, most reverent!
unutterable affection. "And wiped ]
feet with her hair." This, too, was i
usual. She took "woman's chief ori
ment," and-devoted it to wiping the trav
stained feet of her Teaober. She devot
the best she had to even the least horn
able service for Him. It was the utm<
possible expression of her love and dei
tlon.
4. "Then saith.... Judas Iscariot."
looked upon this as a waste, and his m
terlngs convinced some of the other d
clples so'that they joined wit* him in
condemnation of the act (Matthew a
Mark). So often a bad man, working fr<
selfish motives, by plausible argumei
gets good men to unito with him in opposl
things that are really good. Thus usua
the opposition to good wears a mask
virtue; religion is opposed in the name
liberty; faith, in the name of free thoug
5. "Sold and given to the poo
Jesus was a poor man, and His very i
pearance may have suggested that thi
were other things He needed more urgen
than such a gift as this. Had the fam
provided a home for Him or given Him 1
price of this ointment, no one would br
uttered a remark. But this was the ki
of demonstration reserv^ for princes
persons of great distinction; 'and when pi
to one so conspicuously humble in 1
dress and habits, there seemed to the l
instructed eye something inoongruous a
bordering on the grotesque. It was a li
ury, Jeremy Taylor says, that even no e
peror till Nero ever indulged in.
6. "Not that he cared for the poo;
He was acting under false protences. "Ei
what was put therein," rather, took awi
as B. V., stole. Or his bearing the mor
bag gave him the opportunity to ste
Note that the apostles do not hesitate
record even those actions which are d
creditable to themselves. They hide no
ing. And this is one mark of the divi
authorship of the Gospels. These recoi
are a comfort, also; for what Christ!
could find hope for himself, or lor nis a,
if all the early saints had been perfect?
7. "Then said Jesus." If we combl
the reports of the tbree evangelists, it v
appear that Christ's words were subste
tially as follows: "Let her alone. W
trouble yethe woman? for she hath wroug
a good work upon Me; she hath done wl
she could; against the day of My buryi
hath she kept this, and Is come befo
h?nd to anoint My body for the buria
"Let her alone." Spoken chiefly to Jnd
It was the language of sharp rebui
Jesus was indignant at tbe hypocrisy
Judas and the dull preceptlons of t
others.
8. "For the poor always have ye wi
you." They would have plenty of oppi
tunities to aid them, and the more tb
did for their Master, the more they woi
do for the poor, for the poor they are 1
in His stead, and through them would
J 1 th. Woof
press t?u mo mciotuou iuto ui mo iuuo^
It is the want of love, cot of money, tt
allows any poor to suffer; so tbat nil gl
to Christ which increase our love will i
crease the gifts to the poor.
9. "Much people." The R. V. uses
Greek text wnich Inserts the article so tb
it reads the common people, in contr<
with the rulers. Great crowds were gath<
ing at Jerusalem for the feast of the Pa;
over. These, incited bv curiosity, went
see the wonder worker, and the man
whom He had wrought this marvelo
work. The result was tbat many of the
believed (v. 11). The facts were so plal
so completely proved, that they were coi
pelled to accept Jesus as the Messiah.
10. "But the chief priests consulted tb
they might put Lazarus also to death
A.11 the ruleis, including the Pbarlsei
would wish to destroy this rising se<
which would take away their power ai
undermine their influence. This standii
public proof of Jesus as the Messiah mi
be put away at any cost. But ihe chi
priests, who were mostly Sadducees, wou
"'I'UMAnal yet aar\r\ In thttt" T.fl7.flP
U4VO UU uuumuuai 1WBJWU, ? ? ??
was a living refutation of their doctrl
that "there Is no resurrection" (Acts 23,1
11. "Went away, and believed." Bett<
"were going away und believing." T
imperfects denote a continual process.
STATISTICS OF CUBAN WAR,
IVeyler'g Cruelty Responsible For Dea
of 378,000 l>y Diienie and Starratlon.
Professor Arthur Codezo Vlnageras,
Lbe Academy of Sciences, at Havana, Cub
has compiled the vital statistics of the la
war of Cuba with Spain. Ho does n
3laim that it is absolutely accurate, b
chat it is approximately so.
He: estimates the mean population of t]
island in the years 1895-1398 as 1,516,000,
which 532,000 were colorod. Of this numb
torty-flve per cent, of whites and sevent
two per cent, of nogroes were llllterat
rhe percentage of male to female was lift
[our to forty-six.
He estimates the number of theSpanli
vrmysent to Cuba during this period
234,000, and the number of Cubans Iltted
aite arras its dt>z,wu. ui tins nuuiDer .
finds that 71,000 actually roso In arrr
cvhlle 262.000 remained irresolute. The r
minder, almost 30,000, went Into exi]
Clie number of armed Cubans killed durii
:he war was 10,300 whites and 6600negro<
)f unarmed flgating men, 11,400 whites ai
12,000 negroes.
Weyler's order of rcooncentratlon w
responsible, Professor Vlnageras estimate
or the death and starvation and disease
187,000 persons?men, vjomen and ch
Iren. OI this numbor 202,000 were whit<
Ihe total loss of Cuban llfo by the revol
:ion was 418,800. The Cubans in armB
iheendof the revolution he oatimates
18,600. The total Iqbs of the Spaniards w
12,000 In battle and 109,000 by aiaeaae.
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L. A TEMPERANCE COLUM?|
TS THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFESTS
IN MANY WAYS.: / *\
Hi* Tbe Drnnkard'a Lament?An Appeal
xt: the Beforui of a Cnatom That la tW
J." Prevalent Among People of W??Hk
and Refinement? Society and Drink. \ |
id, (Bvtba late Richard Lyle, a member of |
so tlifl New Orleans har. The pathetlo story
>lt- of his ruined life.) ?|
ot I lia.ve tyien to th? funemi of my hopes*
r?* And entombed them one by one,
"0 Not a word wns sa'd,
Not a tear was shed.
1C: When the mournful task was done. ]
JHt
sat Slowly and sadly I turned me round
?er And sought my silent room,
in And there alone
gh By the cool hearthstone
a|- I wooed the midnight gloom.
led And, as the night wind's.deepening shad^
six Lowered above ray brow,
;nt I wept o'erth* days
ess When manhood's rays
Were brighter far than now."
In ' -Jp
be- The dying embers on the hearth
za- Oavi out their flickering light,
ra- A? if to say,
,nd "This Is .the way
an- Thy life shall close in night."
ftt
er I wept aloud In aritralsh sore
as' O'er the blight of prospects fair,
jec While demons langhed
, a And early quaffed
3js My tears llko nectar rare.
Through hell's red ball an echo rang,
._t An echo load and long,
_ ' As in the bowl
,t? I plunged my soul ' . {
jly In the night of madness strong.
. And there, within that sparkling glads. * *
I knew the cause to lie;
This all men own ;,
"Z From zone to zona. ?
^ Yet millions drink and die./ "*T
Ought to Know Better. \ |
of In an article on social abuses the BostOK
tic Herald had recently .an excellent appeal,
L6? for the reform of n custom that Is unhaptar
p">' 100 prevalent among people who haT?v
th. or at least are supposed to have the advanto
tages of culture and rjsflnemeat that the
ra9 possession, of wealth confers. This bad!
ow custom is the unlimited serving of intoxllor
cants at entertainments given by what la
fX. rather vaguely known as "society," and
Pth our esteemed contemporary says: I v
inH | "Another reform which should be takea
ice up under similar conditions is. the laying!
t0 down of a limit at these entertainment*
be- upon the use of intoxicants. It Is a custom;
20; at these young people's dances to ser*re)
ihn champagne, and In quite a number of in->
)ut stances this has been done with an nnfor-j
tunate absence of moderation. Opinions
lOU may differ as to advisability of freely dto-*
Ltj. penslng a stimulant of this kind at dances;
:nR where the great majority of the gaesta are]
under the age of twenty-one. Bat eveaj
alt those hostesses who believe It desirable to
follow the existing custom must, If they
1Q. think of the matter at all. question the ad-;
3a. vlsaolUty of having It drunk to exoese.<
el. For the benefit of all oencemed, it wouWJ
ted surely be better to limit the serving ofj
or. champagne to the supper hour, when those
j3t who drank it would do so with the mlnf-J
f0. mum of resulting disturbance, rather tham
have it served at various times or at elM
He times until the hour of departure, thusgir-;
at. ing direct encouragement to something;
liS. which rightly goes by an exceedingly hara.
hig name. < -v,
,Q(1 "There are ladles prominent in the eoolat \
om life of Boston who, if they realized it, would:
Qt3 not on any account do a wrong ?o a yonngj
QK man or young woman, or willingly be tho
Hy cause of leading not overstrong young per0f
sons into temptation, and yet it. i? by no'
, 0{ means impossible that some of these have,!
ht by their thoughtlessness, done, not a little
r >> to undertake the moral resistance of those'
who have been the recipients of their hoe-f
0}.e pltallty. All that is asked is that mattets
tiv 3hould be brought wlrtiln what every one!
jjy nuuiu jjoxauiiaujr itoio io<uuuai/u7
the bounds, bat bounds now found somewhat
lve difficult of establishment because there la
n j qo social code laid down, and there is a disor
inclination on the part of eaoh hostess to|
^(4 set up an arbitrary standard of her own J
2^3 It wonld be easily possible for fifteen of*
ln. twenty soolal leaders in Boston to lay dow?|
ntj a code of procedure in the matter we hav?
1X. (indicated, and possible ln others, which!
m. practically all would observe."
r ? Anatomical Effects of Drink. \ .
jje Moved by the ever-increasing amount of:
ay drunkenness in TFrance, a Paris physician!
Jv i3 preparing for the instruction of the pub-;
ia'j lie (? series of lantern slidts showing the ,
to anatomical effects of the use of alcohol.,
lis- It would appear that most of the diseases
th. treated in tne French hospitals arise from1,
lne the uso of alcohol. All alcoholic drinks an;
r(j3 more injurious when taken on an emptyj
ian stomach or between meals. The man who!
?e drinks every day alcohol in the form of
? ' liquors, or too much wine, becomes slowly
[na poisoned. The effect of this pofeoning 1st?!
.m destroy, more or less quickly, but none the
lQ. less certainly, all the organs most neces-'
ijy sary to life?the stomach, the liver, th?
kidneys, the blood vessels, the heart andi
jat the brain. Habitual imbibers of alcohol to I
DJZ excess are much more liable than temper-j
re. ate persons to illness, and when 111 have
j ? much less chance of reoovery. The lnves-.
^ tigations of the Parisian medical faculty! ,
.e' sonflrm strongly the well-known fact that!
tree drinking is a frequent cause of conilQ
?umptlon from its tendency to weaken the
lungs.
Ith
M TTT 1< lalrn
ey A whisky drummer, who has sold th*
ild' liquid damnation for twenty-flve yeare|
aft past, stood In the Globe Hotel the other*
be day and made a speech that ought to make;
er. every temperance man shake hands with' s
lat himself. He said:
fts "In this section of the country the sole
[a- of whisky is decreasing veify rapidly. We
jell less and less of It with'each succeeding
a rear. People have quit drinklog. It is no
lat longer considered in good form to swill it.)
isS A. drunken man is a disgrace. A tippler,
jr- cannot hold a job anywhere that is respect3s
able and progressive. The railroads won't
to have him, neither will anybody else. The
on sentiment is getting stronger against lti
us all the time. The teacher, the preaaher
im and the paper are all creating sentiment'
In, against hard drinking. In twenty years
n- from now the whisky problem will have
solved itself. Then soda water, lemonade
at and other light beverages will have crowd*
ed it out of the saloon and the drug store;
33, into the medicine chest of the doctor."?'
it, Centralla (Kan.) Oourier. i
ad I .
ncr Shots at tho Ram Demon.
ist The liquor truffle will never commit suiief
:lde.
A Kr?f? sll0P I9 the devil's 3ign that he is
jtlll doing business in the neighborhood. j
jn The liquor shop will go in a hurry whea
,r* i ihe ohuroh goes for it in real earnest. :
ha I Necessity was not the mother of invention
when the process ot manufacturing
strong drink was invented. t
i The drink bill of Great Britain, just published,
9hows that the Englishman drinks,
th 2.41 gallons of alcohol a year. Next to
him comes the Scotchman with an appetite
slacked with 1.66 gallons.
iQi I To countenance a wrong is to do a
to wrong. He who shelters a criminal be0t
comes himself a criminal. He who legal-i
ut izes a crime is morally a criminal and'
wrong cannot be rightfully legalized,
he Some people are showing a great concern
nf Utt tliulldiinr Irjifflf. hn e-ifllhllnh?rl In OUP
er new possesions. Well, that Is all right,.
V- but now about our own country? Is it
e. more Important to protect toe black
y- children ol tho ruiiiopines than American
boys at home?
! The National Temperance Federation has
as prepared a memorial to the Canadian Govt0
eminent urging precaution against multl"plying
Incentives to drunkenness and lawls
lossness in the northwestern parts of Brit,e"
ish aorth America.
i A saloon keeper disobarged a cleric for
getting drunk. A distiller advertised tot
two teetotalers to run bis still. A drunkard
is at a-discount with all people. Even the
devil wants a more respeccaDle man than ?
[g drunkard to work for him.
of | "Havana." says a recent writer, "is getH
ting Americanized very rapidly. American
33, business men are pushing to tho front. One
u. of tbe hrst of these to offer his wares to the
ut jpubllo is the irrepressible saloon man.
at American saloons are opening in all parte .
as 'of tbe city." Trade follows the flag, par-,
'tloularly th* trade la IJanrr. ? l
ii tA'j' i r8 ~ iIbB